I remember my folks used to have a stack of Percy Faith records and they’d constantly play them whenever we had friends or family over for dinner or brunch.

What gets me about this video clip is that its obviously broadcast on live TV with a FULL orchestra, but you can sorta tell the applause afterwards is somewhat canned. My guess is the orchestra wasn’t on the full stage and performed in a separate room away from the audience.

In any case, you can’t see stuff like this anymore. So before TRL, before The Solid Gold Dancers, you had stuff like this.